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In general, I would say that RS Gold the main purpose of the sampled CPU data is looking at the call stacks, because this tells you subject to sampling artifacts what your code is actually doing. Therefore it seems passing strange that WPA defaults to not showing you call stacks.Since most programs are CPU bound at least part of the time, I think this data should always be enabled, so open up the Computation Section, then open up the CPU Usage Sampled section and grab one of the graphs. I'd recommend "Utilization by Process".When you drag this graph over, you now have two graphs showing CPU usage one precise and one sampled.

That's a waste of space. The precise CPU usage is, well, more precise so we want its graph, and all we really want from the sampled data is call stacks, and those are on the summary table. That means that we now make our first use of the buttons on the right side of the graph's title bar.The three left buttons let you control whether to display "graph and table", "graph only", or "table only". The default is graph only, but for CPU Usage Sampled I think we want table only, as shown above. This gives us a table of precise CPU usage, and a graph of sample CPU usage. Perfect.The default set of columns for CPU Usage Sampled is similar to what is was for xperfview, which means that I think that it is wrong.

In particular, the stack column is off by default which is peculiar since it is the whole raison d' ecirc;tre for the sampled table.For details on the available columns see my CPU sampling documentation, or just trust me and use this set of columns for a starting Runescape Gold. To set the columns click on the View Editor Ctrl+E button that is circled in red in the screen shot below:When you drill in to the sampled data call stacks, the graphs are highlighted to show where the samples came from, which can be invaluable data once you learn how to interpret it.



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